At Lilly, the Senior Director – Business Insights & Analytics (BI&A) – AI and ML Operations Engineering is responsible for leading AI development and operationalization, ensuring scalable, secure, and efficient deployment of AI and ML solutions for commercialization.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, ML frameworks, ML platform engineering, and orchestration tools
- Proficient in at least one programming package such (Python preferred)
- Experience using common data visualization platforms (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI) and visualization packages and frameworks (e.g., Seaborn, Plotly, Flask, RShiny)
- Broad awareness and working knowledge of advanced analytics areas such ML, NLP, optimization, and Predictive Analytics
- PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Econometrics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, or closely related with 3+ years of experience or Master’s degree in those fields with 6+ years of relevant experience leading an advanced analytical function
- Substantial AI / ML experience and understanding of complexities in specialty markets, analytics techniques and US pharmaceutical business
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with your counterparts across BI&A to develop and execute a unified enterprise AI strategy aligned with business objectives and digital transformation goals
- Champion responsible AI practices, ensuring compliance with governance, security, and ethical standards
- Develop deep understanding of business goals and challenges, and translate into clear work streams with appropriate methodology and solutions for execution that will meaningfully drive results
- Lead design and implementation of AI solutions, including generative AI and intelligent automation
- Partner with data engineering and product teams to ensure seamless integration of AI solutions
- Oversee end-to-end ML lifecycle management and provide observability frameworks including drift detection, logging, and automated alerts
- Establish robust CI/CD pipelines to ensure reproducibility, security, and performance
Other
- Manage a wide variety of senior stakeholders and junior colleagues as a part of a highly matrixed global organization
- Foster innovation by sourcing innovative concepts from internal and external functions
- Strong business acumen, and an ability to think strategically in an ambiguous environment
- Excellent communication (written & verbal), interpersonal influencing skills and prioritization skills with attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to influence change with senior stakeholders at the AVP level
